International Journal of Dentistry / 2020 / Article / Tab 3 / Research Article
Barriers in Access to Dental Services Hindering the Treatment of People with Disabilities: A Systematic Review Table 3 Summary of the quality and risk of bias assessment.
Included studies Risk of bias assessment Quality assessment (total score) Reporting External validity Internal Validity - Bias Internal validity - confusion and selection bias Al Agili et al. (2004) [74 ] 16 Damiance (2016) [83 ] 15 Schultz et al. (2001) [72 ] 15 Pradhan et al. (2009) [78 ] 15 Koneru and Sigal (2009) [76 ] 14 Nelson et al. (2011) [77 ] 14 Edwards et al. (2002) [73 ] 12 Milnes et al. (1995) [71 ] 12 De Jongh et al. (2008) [75 ] 12 Rocha et al. (2015) [5 ] 11 Cardoso et al. (2011) [80 ] 10 Dantas Cardoso et al. (2015) [82 ] 10 Burtner et al. (1990) [70 ] 9 Paulo et al. (2017) [84 ] 9 Bindal et al. (2015) [81 ] 8 Aragão et al. (2011) [79 ] 8
, low risk; , unclear risk; , high risk. ∗ Adapted from Cochrane Collaboration. ∗∗ Adapted from Downs and Black, scores from zero to 17 (higher scores indicate higher quality).